A hospital nurse admitted lying about being dismissed from a previous job to get a position at Addenbrooke’s, a nursing council heard.

Juliet Mendy admitted that she lied about her previous employment in her application form and in interview around August 6, 2009 – stating that she had never been dismissed from employment for misconduct – and failed to disclose a reason for leaving Care UK’s Farm Lane Care Home in Fulham.

She appeared before a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel to answer the allegations, which she admitted at the hearing in London on October 24 and 25.

In interview she also said she had not included Care UK as a referee on her application form as she had only worked for them occasionally as a bank nurse. She failed to tell hospital staff during interview that she had been dismissed from Care UK because of concerns over her competence relating to giving out medication.

Mendy, a band 5 nurse, went on to secure a job at the hospital working within the medicine division at the hospital.

She went on to fail elements of her Qualified Nurse Orientation Programme within the trust and a meeting was held on August 27, 2010, to discuss her failings.

The registered nurse lied to the divisional lead nurse for medicine, stating that her relationship with her previous employers had been good.

The trust subsequently discovered, after following up with the employers, that she had in fact been dismissed by Care UK.

Leslie White, NMC panel chairman, said: “By failing to disclose that you had been dismissed from your previous employment you put not only your patients but also your colleagues at risk of harm.”

The panel suspended her for nine months and at the end of the period of suspension another panel will review the order.